News Article October 1934

ROCK RAPIDS

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/22/2006 at 15:44:25

October 1934

Rock Rapids football fans will have their first chance to watch a night football game on the local field tomorrow evening. Twenty-four 1500-watt bulbs will furnish the illumination for the game. The big bulbs make the field light as day and experts insist that there is no reason why the play should be a bit slower than in a day-time contest.

At a special meeting here yesterday, members of the board of health of the city of Rock Rapids received a report of the discovery of a case of Malta Fever here. This disease, a dangerous one, is transmissible and is generally carried by milk. To be absolutely safe, they urge that all milk be boiled before being used.

Lyon's pauper warrants for the first time in many years, now carry the wording "not paid for want of funds." This is public evidence of a fact that has long been known – that the county's poor fund was overdrawn but it does not mean that the warrants are not good. Now they must be taken to the bank where they will be cashed – and carried until the county has money to pay them.

Permission from Jodie Hoogendoorn, Editor, Lyon County Reporter